Biography Thomas Manning Thompson

The information was updated in December of 2006 by the artist:

Born near Starkville, Mississippi, Tommy Thompson has lived in the South during most of his life. Through many walks in the woods with his father and hunting trips with his uncle, the environment instilled in him a love of nature. Now living near the banks of the Tennessee River in northwestern Alabama, Thompson receives inspiration for his plein-air landscape paintings from the natural surroundings. Thompson was influenced to become an artist by his father, a former merchant marine, who created paintings of ships and landscapes using colored pens.

During the 1970s at Mississippi State University, he headed a team of artists who prepared illustrations for technica
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